N이/가 되다

How to use it

Means 'become N'. Also used for times and seasons arriving: 봄이 되다, 열두 시가 되다. The past 됐어요 ('has become') is very common.

Forming it

The noun takes 이/가, not 을/를: ✗ 의사를 돼요. 되어요 contracts to 돼요 (✗ 되요). For adjectives use -아/어지다 (예뻐지다).

Examples

• 제 동생은 올해 대학생이 됐어요.

  My younger sibling became a university student this year.

• 벌써 열두 시가 됐어요. 점심 먹으러 가요.

  It's already twelve o'clock. Let's go eat lunch.

Compared with similar patterns

-아/어지다 means 'become' with adjectives (추워지다); -게 되다 means 'come to / end up doing' with verbs.

Related patterns

• -아/어지다 become (change of state with adjectives); be done (passive)
• -게 되다 come to (do), end up (doing), it turned out that